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Devil's Eyes
Synesthesia isn't always a useful gift for a recording engineer, as Graham reveals during a film interview for Noah's documentary on the topic. Synesthetics are people who see music. Some see colors or shapes in the notes they hear. Graham's a little out of the ordinary -- he sees images. Often, entire scenes play out before his eyes.
Graham's come up against a stumbling block because of his synesthesia. In the bizarre death metal tracks he's working on, the devil's eyes appear at every turn. He's scared stiff, and if he's afraid to listen to them, how will he ever get the tracks edited?
As Noah and Graham discover, confronting the devil's eyes is a job for two.
Graham's come up against a stumbling block because of his synesthesia. In the bizarre death metal tracks he's working on, the devil's eyes appear at every turn. He's scared stiff, and if he's afraid to listen to them, how will he ever get the tracks edited?
As Noah and Graham discover, confronting the devil's eyes is a job for two.
- GenresM M Romance
19 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 1, 2010
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G.R. Richards
114 books10 followersThere's a reason guys growl for G.R. Richards erotica. You would never know it by the love of public television documentaries and great food in high end restaurants, but G.R. pens some of the world's steamiest guy-on-guy stories. G.R. is no stranger to a bed damp with sweat or the sweetness of bodies pressed against each other. Next time you feel the urge, pour yourself a glass of fine red wine, play some sultry background music, and join G.R. Richards in a world where all the guys get to play... and all the rest get to watch.
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October 25, 2011
Wow, that was certainly interesting! I had to read it again as soon as I'd finished. I might even have to add a smut-tastic shelf for that!
"Skunk", as his friends call him for his hair, is a synesthetic sound tech that sees moving images (like hallucinations) instead of simple colors, being interviewed for a documentary on the sense-blending condition by Noah, who is short and just a bit chubby, and cute as a button. Skunk is extremely attracted to him, but always falls shy right after mild flirting and before asking for what he wants, be it a date or a casual encounter. Plus, he's obviously older than Noah. Still, Noah really intrigues him and when he decides to stay late and work on a piece of music by a classical metal group he invites Noah to stay. Skunk is worried though, he keeps seeing Devil Eyes throughout the song, and it has freaked him out so much that he keeps putting off finishing the track. Yet he wants to prove himself in front of Noah, yet when he plays the song, a new and more terrible (and kinky, smut-tastic, I said it) full hallucination threatens to overtake him.
A good story and definitely unusual!
"Skunk", as his friends call him for his hair, is a synesthetic sound tech that sees moving images (like hallucinations) instead of simple colors, being interviewed for a documentary on the sense-blending condition by Noah, who is short and just a bit chubby, and cute as a button. Skunk is extremely attracted to him, but always falls shy right after mild flirting and before asking for what he wants, be it a date or a casual encounter. Plus, he's obviously older than Noah. Still, Noah really intrigues him and when he decides to stay late and work on a piece of music by a classical metal group he invites Noah to stay. Skunk is worried though, he keeps seeing Devil Eyes throughout the song, and it has freaked him out so much that he keeps putting off finishing the track. Yet he wants to prove himself in front of Noah, yet when he plays the song, a new and more terrible (and kinky, smut-tastic, I said it) full hallucination threatens to overtake him.
A good story and definitely unusual!
April 25, 2012
This review can be found at Brief Encounters Reviews.
This was an interesting story that touches on the subject of synesthesia. I really enjoyed the descriptions as Graham, aka Skunk, tells Noah about what it is like for himself and for another popular artist who shares the diagnosis. His friend sees colors, but Graham has full one images, like movies or dreams. He has been putting off working on a death metal album because the first time he heard them play he saw devil eyes and was so frightened by the images he hasn’t been able to bring himself to work on the album. However he offers to let Noah hang out after their interview, however the song he plays sends him into this wild hallucination, once again bring up the devil’s eyes.
When the song ends, he runs to the other room to check on Noah, but the song restarts and he falls immediately into another hallucination. This time it’s rather a split personality thing and in his hallucination, he ends up having mad sex with Noah. Only, wait, when the song ends … they’re naked and did have sex. Hmmm.
Okay, I loved the descriptions of synesthesia and how it manifested for Graham, but I couldn’t get past thinking “What if he had hallucinated that he’d had to kill Noah for some reason, rather than have sex with him?” It’s one thing to have images going through your head, it’s another thing to be so into it you act on your hallucinations. Luckily Noah was all on board with the sex, but would he have raped him if he hadn’t? He didn’t even realize hewas having sex with him in real life. The book is billed as a paranormal but I wasn’t sure if the experience was due to his synesthesia or was there some paranormal aspect to it. The hallucinations while listening to music were not new for Graham, so I’m not sure.
Perhaps I’m just too logical and needed to let it go and just enjoy the fantasy aspect of the story, but I couldn’t help but think working in the music industry with a reaction that throws you into full-on acting out hallucinations seems awfully dangerous. So I think if you can just let the fantasy/paranormal aspect of the story work for you, the sex is certainly hot and primitive and I particularly enjoyed the first part of the story, but I just found myself thinking about other things rather than the romance.
This was an interesting story that touches on the subject of synesthesia. I really enjoyed the descriptions as Graham, aka Skunk, tells Noah about what it is like for himself and for another popular artist who shares the diagnosis. His friend sees colors, but Graham has full one images, like movies or dreams. He has been putting off working on a death metal album because the first time he heard them play he saw devil eyes and was so frightened by the images he hasn’t been able to bring himself to work on the album. However he offers to let Noah hang out after their interview, however the song he plays sends him into this wild hallucination, once again bring up the devil’s eyes.
When the song ends, he runs to the other room to check on Noah, but the song restarts and he falls immediately into another hallucination. This time it’s rather a split personality thing and in his hallucination, he ends up having mad sex with Noah. Only, wait, when the song ends … they’re naked and did have sex. Hmmm.
Okay, I loved the descriptions of synesthesia and how it manifested for Graham, but I couldn’t get past thinking “What if he had hallucinated that he’d had to kill Noah for some reason, rather than have sex with him?” It’s one thing to have images going through your head, it’s another thing to be so into it you act on your hallucinations. Luckily Noah was all on board with the sex, but would he have raped him if he hadn’t? He didn’t even realize hewas having sex with him in real life. The book is billed as a paranormal but I wasn’t sure if the experience was due to his synesthesia or was there some paranormal aspect to it. The hallucinations while listening to music were not new for Graham, so I’m not sure.
Perhaps I’m just too logical and needed to let it go and just enjoy the fantasy aspect of the story, but I couldn’t help but think working in the music industry with a reaction that throws you into full-on acting out hallucinations seems awfully dangerous. So I think if you can just let the fantasy/paranormal aspect of the story work for you, the sex is certainly hot and primitive and I particularly enjoyed the first part of the story, but I just found myself thinking about other things rather than the romance.
October 21, 2011
Title: Devil’s Eyes
Author: G. R. Richards
Publisher: JMS Books
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 9781611521986
Genre: Contemporary, Interracial, Paranormal, Gay Erotica
Length: 17 pages
Rating: 4.5 Diamonds
Heat Level: Spicy erotic
Other: GLBT
Reviewer: Starla Kaye
Date: 10-20-11
Naïve that I may be, I hadn’t heard of synesthesia and found the details about this really interesting. In some ways, as a writer myself, I “see” with my senses as well when I create a story.
Devil’s Eyes was very short, but well done. Enough was learned about the main character, Graham, to want to understand him and what he was facing: both the problem with his work on a particular piece of music and with his attraction to the younger man, Noah.
And it was nice and spicy, erotic enough to put you there in the story with these two men.
Author: G. R. Richards
Publisher: JMS Books
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 9781611521986
Genre: Contemporary, Interracial, Paranormal, Gay Erotica
Length: 17 pages
Rating: 4.5 Diamonds
Heat Level: Spicy erotic
Other: GLBT
Reviewer: Starla Kaye
Date: 10-20-11
Naïve that I may be, I hadn’t heard of synesthesia and found the details about this really interesting. In some ways, as a writer myself, I “see” with my senses as well when I create a story.
Devil’s Eyes was very short, but well done. Enough was learned about the main character, Graham, to want to understand him and what he was facing: both the problem with his work on a particular piece of music and with his attraction to the younger man, Noah.
And it was nice and spicy, erotic enough to put you there in the story with these two men.
June 7, 2010
This is a somewhat weird story about synethesia (ability to see colors/pictures when listening to music). Very well written descriptions of the hallucinations Graham has while trying to edit some music tracks.
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